The “asexualists" were often like animal preformationists in that they believed seeds did not need pollen fertilization to develop.

When the first rain hits […] that big pipe carries a lot of water that blasts the algae and sediment, which then foams up.

But the same term, positive law, is also very often used to designate statute law or positive legislation, as distinguished from customary or unwritten law derived by the judicial application of natural reason.

Armed with binocs, she was positioned on a low rise that overlooked the entire valley. No one was going to sneak past her.